Stanhope's Tutor

Several occult scholars (and yours truly as well) have claimed (I expect by repeating one another) that Philip Henry Stanhope was tutored by John Varley's father, Richard Varley (a man about whom we know nothing, by the way).

Ten minutes' reading in Lady Hester Stanhope's biography tonight reveals that Philip Henry was educated entirely at home, and by Charles Stanhope's secretary, Jeremiah Joyce, who was one of the men indicted for "encompassing the death of the King" in the famous treason trials of 1794, when Philip Henry was 13.

What Philip Henry did for education after Joyce went to the Tower (not for long, but he didn't return to Stanhope's menage, as far as I can determine), I don't know.

Maybe that's when Richard Varley stepped in...